Leviticus 18:28

So if you defile the land, it will vomit you out as it spewed out the nations before you.

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In The King James Version

That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that were before you.

In Context

27For the men who were in the land before you committed all these abominations, and the land has become defiled.

29Therefore anyone who commits any of these abominations must be cut off from among his people.

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Cross References

Leviticus 20:22You are therefore to keep all My statutes and ordinances, so that the land where I am bringing you to live will not vomit you out.

Ezekiel 36:13For this is what the Lord GOD says: Because people say to you, ‘You devour men and deprive your nation of its children,’

Romans 8:22We know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until the present time.

Matthew Henry on Leviticus 18:20-30

Laws against Iniquity. ( b. c. 1490.) 19 Also thou shalt not approach unto a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is put apart for her uncleanness. 20 Moreover thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour's wife, to defile thyself with her. 21 And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the Lord . 22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination. 23 Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile… Read the whole commentary →

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